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View SchemaReflection of matter waves by a moving wall
| Authors | Pi-Gang Luan, Yee-Mou Kao |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0203054 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0203054 |
Abstract
Reflection of a normal incident matter wave by a perfectly reflecting wall moving with a constant velocity is investigated. A surprising phenomenon is found-that if the the wall moves faster than the phase velocity of the incident wave, both the reflected and incident waves propagate in the same direction. This counter-intuitive result is an example which shows that common sense is not always credible when one deals with quantum problems.
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